A section of the R55 Quagga road in Laudium, south of Pretoria, has been closed off as a result of deteriorating road conditions caused by a sinkhole. The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport has advised motorists to use alternative routes and...
Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport, Ismail Vadi, is calling on members of the public to comment on the recently published Gauteng Transport Authority Bill (2018). According to the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport the bill’s main function...
Kimberley residents have now been left without water for four days. That despite promises from the Sol Plaatje Municipality that they will meet their deadline to restore water by midnight last night. The city has been without water since Friday due...
Government has set aside R433.524 million from the disaster grants for immediate drought relief funding for the country’s most affected provinces. The fund, which will be distributed over the 2017/18 and 2018/19 financial years, have been allocated...
Education departments from around the country are calling for the demolition of pit toilets in schools where sanitation facilities have already been provided. The decision was taken at an urgent Council of Education Ministers (CEM) meeting held...
In a bid to avert a water crisis in Gauteng, the province’s Premier, David Makhura says provincial government will set up a water war room. According to Makhura the decision stems from issues of water security raised at the Premier’s Coordinating...
Global engineering firm SRK Consulting has released a new web app to help clients help clients manage their water in a fun and competitive way. The WaterWar App, which is the brainchild of two young SRK colleagues – environmental and civil engineer...
Chinese vehicle manufacturer, BAIC Group, is planning to launch their first ever autonomous vehicles this year and while the idea of autonomous vehicles is one that seems far out for the South African market the manufacturer believes Port Elizabeth...
Rwanda and Tanzania have agreed to drop the proposed use of diesel engines in favour of electric locomotives for the Isaka-Kigali standard gauge railway (SGR) line. According to Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye, Rwanda’s transport minister, the...
MAN Truck & Bus has taken another step forward in the quest to achieve zero-emissions for its customers with the launch of a fully electric van. For around ten years, MAN Truck & Bus has been working on innovative concepts for supplying and...
